Winds of Deceit

The body in her studio wasn't the worst part.Bea Tran survived a refugee camp, decades of exploitation, and starting over in America with nothing but her art. She thought the worst was behind her.Then she finds an art dealer dead in her studio-and four of her most valuable paintings missing.When the Mahjong Murder Mystery Society learns that Bea's "Between Waters" series documents forty-five years of trafficking by an international criminal network, their cozy mountain town investigation explodes into something far more dangerous. The paintings aren't just art, they're evidence. And someone is willing to kill to keep them hidden.Retired insurance investigator Donnie Carlisle and her found family of brilliant misfits must untangle a conspiracy that spans decades and continents, where refugee artists have been systematically exploited and anyone who threatens to expose the truth ends up dead. As the body count rises and federal agents close in, the group faces their most harrowing case yet: protecting a witness who's already lost everything, exposing crimes that powerful people want buried, and proving that small-town solidarity is stronger than international corruption.But when ICE comes for Bea immediately after the trial-claiming her testimony means she lied on her citizenship papers forty-three years ago-the real fight for justice begins.Book Two in the Mahjong Murder Mystery Series